University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
The successful candidate will participate in the delivery of excellent care to patients within the Stroke Service with development of the role of a Physician Associate (PA) within the speciality.
All PAs will be given an educational supervisor and supported with work-based assessments for appraisal purposes, all PAs have access to a Study Budget in order to attend National Conferences and courses as part of CPD. There is a regular teaching programme for the PAs in addition to local departmental teaching and we hold a PA forum every 3 months. We have student PAs from Bournemouth University, and you will be asked to assist in their educational while on placement.
The post holder will be responsible to their Educational Supervisor, working closely with the consultants and other allied health professionals within the department, to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to their patients.
The post holder will work with the Consultants, Doctors in training, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, and the wider Stroke Service team, which may, in time, include some weekend working and might include cross-site working until all stroke services are centralised on the RBH site (current timescale is May 2025). This post suits a PA who has been qualified for 1 year +.
Interview date: TBC
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be working on our 43-bed designated Stroke Unit. They will be able to participate in and support the daily Consultant ward rounds for both the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU), which take place twice daily, and the Acute Stroke Unit (ASU), which takes place every morning. The post holder will also be expected to support the daily white board round (review of all in-patients) and the weekly Stroke Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meeting.
The postholder will work closely with the Stroke Medical Team, The Stroke Unit Nursing Team and our team of Specialist Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioners. In addition, they will work as part of the wider Stroke MDT that includes Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dieticians, Orthoptists and Social Workers. There are certainly opportunities to develop the role within our Same Day Emergency Clinic (SDEC), which is a new service being implemented at RBH from March 2025, as well as our Stroke Ambulatory and Follow-up Clinics.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Job responsibilities
This is a very exciting time to join the Trust, The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals and Poole Hospital, merged to form University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in 2020, with a plan for all emergency services to be based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) site and all planned care at the Poole Hospital (PH) site by 2030. This provides an exciting backdrop of change and the chance to help develop innovative services and new pathways. Stroke is at the forefront of these changes. All in-patient stroke beds are now based at RBH, within our 43-bed purpose-built stroke unit, of which 8 beds are designated as hyper-acute stroke. Our weekday TIA Rapid Access Neurovascular clinic is currently based at PH, with weekends provided on a shared rota basis in collaboration with Salisbury Hospital. Approval and investment funding has recently been agreed for a new 7-day Neurovascular Same Day Emergency Clinic (SDEC) which will be based at RBH, and plans are progressing to re-locate our weekday TIA service from PH to RBH and embed it within our new Neurovascular SDEC service (current timescale for re-location is May 2025). We also have a comprehensive Stroke Early Supported Discharge service which we are in the process of expanding to support patients with higher levels of complexity and dependency.
Our Stroke Service comprises of an extremely dynamic, proactive, and dedicated team of Consultant Stroke Physicians, Stroke Consultant Therapist, Stroke Consultant Nurse, Stroke Specialist Nurses, TIA Specialist Nurses, Stroke Outreach Team, Stroke Performance and Delivery Manager and our extremely professional multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will work with the Consultants, Doctors in training, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, and the wider Stroke Service team, which may, in time, include some weekend working and might include cross-site working until all stroke services are centralised on the RBH site (current timescale is May 2025). This post suits a PA who has been qualified for 1 year +.
For more detailed information, please see the post job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Postgraduate Diploma in Physician Associate Studies from an accredited UK training program
* Member of the Faculty of Physician Associates at the Royal College of Physician (FRCPA)
* Member on the UK managed voluntary registry with the FRCPA (and any successor from regulation with the GMC)
* Current, valid certification of the Physician Associate National Examination
* Basic Life support
* Immediate or Advanced Life Support
* MSc in Physician Associate studies
Experience
* Knowledge and experience of managing acute conditions
* Evidence of teaching clinical skills to staff
* Experience of influencing and persuading others resulting in improvement to clinical practice
* Ability to exercise sound judgement when faced with conflicting pressures
* Secondary care experience
* Has conducted clinical audit/Quality Improvement Projects (QIP)
* Experience of working as a Physician Associate in the UK
* Experience of mentoring students
* Evidence of closing the loop in clinical audit
* Able to take responsibility for the clinical care of patients ensuring the highest standards
* Ability to undertake a structured clinical assessment
* Can organise appropriate investigations and interpret the results
* Good knowledge of IT including Microsoft Office
* Ability to implement policies and guidelines
* Can apply research outcomes to clinical problems
* Inquiring and critical approach to work
Knowledge
* Evidence of continual learning and development
* Understanding of the current issues within the organisation and wider NHS
* Understanding of the role of Physician Associates within the organisation
* Awareness of current developments and initiatives in the speciality
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
* Knowledge of medical terminology and procedures
Confidentiality
Personal Attributes
* Ability to manage high pressure situations in a clinical setting
* Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare
* Demonstrates the values and behaviours of the Trust
* Understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses
* Understanding of the Trust values
Language Requirements
* Be able to speak English as necessary to undertake the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Physician in Stroke and Acute Medicine
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